The Medium is the Massage: on the Temptation to Replace People with Technology
Posted onSherry Turkle is distraught. The more this MIT professor of the social studies of science and technology looks at the world around her, the more […]
Category: Social Issues
The Syrian Refugee and the Good Samaritan
Posted onA recent article about John Kasich, the governor of my home state of Ohio, noted his opposition to providing asylum to Syrian refugees. Kasich’s reasoning […]
I looked, and behold! a spray tan horse (or, how the loss of literacy could spell the end for western civilization)
Posted onWhen Kim Kardashian tweeted, “Today marks the 100 year anniversary of Armenian Genocide!” as if she were giving a birth announcement, it predictably elicited some […]
Christian Involvement in Politics Is Not a Zero-Sum Game
Posted onWhen Christianity became the official state religion of the Roman Empire in 380 (after being granted the status of an approved religion by Emperor Constantine […]
The Defeat of American Constantianism and the Resurrection of Grace
Posted onI once heard Phil Burress, head of the religiously and politically conservative organization Citizens for Community Values, talk about the political work that his group had […]
Wicker Man and Wife
Posted onI recently wrote an article for a great organization called I Believe in Love. The article was titled “Why Marriage Is Good For Men” and […]
Nebulosity, thy name is feminism
Posted onAziz Ansari recently delighted mainstream feminists on The Late Show with David Letterman when he claimed that, “if you believe that men and women have […]
A Response to Brett Kunkle’s Philosophical Argument Against Annihilationism
Posted onStand To Reason’s Brett Kunkle posted a video today with a philosophical argument against annihilationism. In short, he argued that since man is made in the […]
Fighting Injustice, Condemning Violence: Jesus’ Gospel of Social Justice and Restoration
Posted on(the previous title for this post was “What Does Easter Sunday Have To Do With Social Liberation?” This material is also included in my book […]
The New Testament’s Relationship to the Old Testament (with discussion of typology, the relationship between law and grace, and theonomy)
Posted onOne of the perennial difficulties in Christian theology is the relationship of the Old Testament to the New. Perhaps the strongest proponent for discontinuity between […]